Category: News

14 January 2021, Quezon City– Environmental advocates have weighed in on the plan of the government to construct 300 more landfills by 2022. Through a press statement, leaders of the Bangon Kalikasan Movement, Mother Earth Foundation and the EcoWaste Coalition appealed to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to reconsider its plan to build more landfills across the […]

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The local government of Tublay reopened its tourist destinations to residents of the province subject to health protocols and guidelines on the operation of tourism sites and activities amid the COVID pandemic. Mayor Armando Lauro issued Executive Order Number 01 series 2021 establishing the general guidelines governing the operation of particular tourism sites and activities in […]

MANKAYAN, Benguet– Connecting with the national agencies and other stakeholders to secure COVID vaccines for the constituents especially the farmers is a priority moving forward plan of the municipal local government alongside its continuing effort to minimize and manage the disease in its jurisdiction. “We need to secure vaccines for our farmers to be able to establish food security “, […]

BAGUIO CITY, PHILIPPINES?The country’s first UNESCO Creative City is set to establish itself as a cultural hub for independent filmmaking with the launch of the first Montañosa Film Festival (MFF) this February. Drawing inspiration from the Spanish word montañosa, which directly translates to ‘mountainous,’ the festival will highlight the rich cultural heritage of the Cordilleras, its diverse creative forces blending […]

BAGUIO CITY – This summer resort city received a total of 19,242 tourists last December, the city tourism office has reported. They were among those who registered at the online portal visita.baguio.gov.ph. as tourists and arrived from December 1 to 31, city tourism supervising officer, engineer Aloysius Mapalo, said Tuesday. The highest number of daily visitor entry was recorded on […]

CITY OF TABUK, Kalinga, Jan. 5 — Dialysis patients in the province will no longer have to travel far for their treatment with the Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) inking a partnership with St. Mary Kidney Care, Inc. (SMKCI) for the operation of a dialysis ward at the Kalinga Provincial Hospital here. The memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the dialysis […]

SM Foundation Inc. (SMFI) announced the start of the online application period for the SM College Scholarship program for School Year 2021-2022 which opened on January 1 and will end on February 28, 2021. The SM College Scholarship Program started from the vision of the late SM patriarch, Henry “Tatang” Sy, Sr. He believed that if you send one child […]